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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Trigraph
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Modern English
Linguistic Method
2. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Fluency
Six basic types of syllables
Chall's Stage 1
Attention
3. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Auditory Processing
Curriculum referenced tests
V >
Whole Language
4. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Joe Torgesen
Comprehension
Phoneme
Phonemic Awareness
5. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
The Norman Conquest
Combination
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Profile
6. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Joe Torgesen
Diagnostic tests
ESL
Sound Symbol Association
7. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Impulsivity
Criterion-Referenced Test
Grapheme
Consonant Digraph
8. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Multisensory
WIATII
NICHD
Visual Processing
9. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Diphthong
Standard score
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Raw score
10. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Visual Processing
Combination
Ability
Frank Smith
11. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Oral Language
Accent
Funding
12. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
VV
IDEA
Mathew Effect
Fluency
13. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Impulsivity
WRAT
Three Layers of Language
Sound Symbol Association
14. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Linguistic Method
Cognitive Assessment
Modification
Visual Processing
15. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
ALTA
Criterion-Referenced Test
Derived Score
Orthography
16. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Digraph
ADHD
Orthography
WRAT
17. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Phonological Awareness
Pre-English
Visual Learners
18. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Sight Words
Consonant Digraph
Base Word
Cedilla
19. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Tilde
Open Syllable
Anglo Saxon
20. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Affix
Comprehension
Criterion referenced tests
Phonics
21. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Ability
Phonemic Awareness
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
22. Whole body learning
CTOPP
Breve
Phonemic/ decodable words
Kinesthetic
23. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Funding
Pre-English
Great Vowel Shift
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
24. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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25. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Chall's Stage 5
Syllable Instruction
Direct Instruction
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
26. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Pre-English
Cognition
Samuel T. Orton
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
27. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Middle English
Battery
RTI
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
28. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Phonemic Awareness
V-e
Raw score
Simultaneous teaching
29. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Matthew Effect
WIATII
ALTA
NICHD
30. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Phonics approach
SBOE
Combination
Morpheme
31. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Cognition
Samuel T. Orton
Vr
32. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
Base Word
Battery
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
33. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Texas Education Code 28.06
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Base Word
34. Academic Language Therapy Association
Trigraph
ALTA
Sound Symbol Association
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
35. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Combination
NICHD
Fluency
36. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Anglo Saxon
Latin layer of language
Vowel
Kinesthetic
37. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Standard score
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
[-'le
38. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Consonant
Fluency
Joe Torgesen
Raw score
39. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
Synthetic Instruction
Attention
Fluency
40. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
Joe Torgesen
Combination
Morpheme
41. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Phonics
Top-down Reading Approach
The Norman Conquest
Consonant Digraph
42. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Sound Symbol Association
[-'le
Percentile
Closed Syllable
43. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Tactile
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Whole Language
44. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
ALTA
Standard Scores
45. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Phonology
Samuel T. Orton
Texas Education Code 38.003
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
46. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
The Norman Conquest
VAKT
Cedilla
Battery
47. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Mathew Effect
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
48. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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49. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Suffix
Social language
Achievement test
Standardized test
50. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Universal Screening
Expressive language
Modification
Syllable Instruction
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